Creating from waste is being in tune with your surroundings. The waste in one place is likely entirely different from another but the thing that remains constant is the waste itself. There is an unease about the relationship between the artist and waste the material, when you feel so strongly about the elimination of it yet collaborate in such an intimate way. 

This is a small archive of the pieces and materials I have worked with through the years. Small as to not overwhelm you and also because so much gets lost in the years of life. Maybe one day, out in the ether, I will find some of those first pieces of strung together sea glass and driftwood or the rat tail my old business partner and I found in an alley and strung round our necks in pride.

I do not delude myself into thinking that many of these things will not end up back in the ground, or rather just existing on the ground until the end of time. It is why my process has evolved into one that only creates with materials, still found and repurposed, that will eventually reenter the earth without harm to her or us animals. I also do not kid myself about the reality that our society sees these materials as lesser than. Lesser than what is something I am still trying to figure out because the truth behind our precious, raw materials is far more gruesome than a person digging through the trash.